Media Articles

Partnerships With Industry Can Exclude Small Businesses

Smaller companies complain of a closed culture.

By Diego Laje for SIGNAL Magazine

Good business professionals turn a rolodex into profits. Standing between buyer and supplier could be good for profits, but can add inefficiencies for smaller defense suppliers.

While the defense business has special considerations, as there are life-or-death consequences if all parties do not share full information, often only very large corporations enjoy the advantage of access.

Will X9 Spider Computer Systems Power the US Army in 2030?

Will X9 Spider^™ Computer Systems Power the US Army in 2030?

November 10, 2022
by Max Maxfield

A couple of weeks ago as I pen these words, I heard that the folks from General Micro Systems had taken home three “Best of Show” awards from the recent AUSA 2022 annual meeting and exposition, which was held 10-12 October in Washington DC, and whose purpose was to highlight computing innovations for building the Army of 2030.

General Micro Systems Wearable Computer – Enabling True Soldier Networking

Originally published by Stephen W. Miller of Armada International

GMS’s M9 Spider S1502-MP offers that processing power essential to achieving true soldier integrated networking. In fact, it is more like a mission computer, personal tablet computer, and vehicle-mounted server—plus cloud-based data mining GPGPU—all contained in a small form factor battery powered package that fits into a backpack!

GMS Joins FACE and SOSA™

General Micro Systems (GMS) Plans Modular Open Standards Approach (MOSA) Architectures; Joins FACE and SOSA Consortia
A 40-year contributor to the VMEbus and VPX standards, GMS readies new MOSA architectures and joins Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment™ and Sensor Open Standards Architecture™ consortia to contribute ideas, recommendations

High-capacity storage for battlefield use handles AI data sets and other military tasks

Originally published by LISA DAIGLE for Military Embedded Magazine

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. General Micro Systems (GMS) announced the launch of the rugged X9 Spider storage system intended for military-focused sensor data recorders, artificial intelligence (AI) data sets, networked storage, and data payload “sneaker net” portable data movement.

Architecture boost for OpenVPX single board systems

Originally published by Nick Flaherty of eeNews Europe

General Micro Systems (GMS) in the US is launching over 20 3U and 6U OpenVPX computer boards, peripherals and chassis using its new X9 architecture. The X9 Venom family of 21 products will be available by early 2023, starting with 3U and 6U single-board computers (SBCs) based on Intel and Nvidia processors and GPUs.

GMS Introduces Next-Generation VME Interface Controller

GMS has introduced its next-generation VME interface controller for use with the company’s family of 3U and 6U VME single board computer (SBC) products. GMS is one of the original members VITA, the industry standards group responsible for both VME and VPX standards, and the company has been innovating VME products for nearly 40 years.

Distributed Architecture Benefits

With all the buzz around modular interoperability and MOSA, designers of U.S. military systems must also recognize the benefits of shifting to distributed computing architectures. Centralized single-box systems like CMOSS, OpenVPX, and other board/backplane chassis promise to ease integration challenges and vendor lock-in but hosting multiple capabilities inside them is the worst kind of “modularity”.

Industry eyes Thunderbolt USB port connections to achieve commonality

Originally published by Carlo Munoz of Janes
Combat information technology company General Micro Systems (GMS) is betting that integration of Thunderbolt USB port connections into present and future US armed forces' platforms could be the key to solving the Pentagon's interoperability challenges.

SourceSafe™ BIOS

SecureDNA™ is the center of General Micro System’s continuing commitment to product security and is detailed in separate GMS documentation (GMS document #003-0006, available under NDA). An important part of the GMS SecureDNA™ suite is our SourceSafe™ BIOS.